The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I wrote a piece about these concerns back in 2015 in the early days of the new free lunch option. students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. Participation in the school lunch program has remained a flat 52 percent of all U.S.

Advocacy 105

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. We're working with educators and talking about school culture and safety and nurturing, and what do thriving schools look like?

Humanities 102

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. Mississippi Learning. But on many campuses, learning a second language is treated simply as a box to check.

Heritage 96

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.

K-12 145

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Social Justice 111

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math.

Tutoring 140

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

Advocacy 84

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. Abdi was at the top of her class, and Collins had worked with about 200 students like her in a new virtual advising program by College Possible , a nonprofit founded in 2000.

Social Justice 75

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 84

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Nearly a decade in, the culture of competence is deeply ingrained in the district; most of today’s high schoolers have never experienced anything different. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. In college, you can’t,” said Beaulieu.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Since 2015, when Florida State University began to counsel incoming freshmen on the wisdom of 15 credits, those who took the advice have actually earned higher G.P.A.’s. s “Diversity in Western Culture” requirement and the state-mandated writing requirement. Taking more credits has benefits other than cutting time to a degree.

Archaeology 85

Archaeology Tutoring History Advocacy 85

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. Moreover, in Louisiana, 2 percent was put toward childcare in 2015, down from 34 percent in 2000.

Primary Sources 84

Primary Sources Advocacy Government Education 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The uniformity and scale of the state logging — and the prioritization of profit and yield — do not align with the tribes’ forestry plans, which are tied to cultural values and use of land, Incashola said. Since 2015, the state has made $775,387.82 We can’t do anything about it, because they have the right to manage their land.”

Government 90

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In 2015, amid rising arrivals of asylum-seeking families along the Mexico-US border, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) constructed and opened a facility in Dilley intended to detain some of those families while they underwent one of the initial stages of the legal process: the credible or reasonable fear interview.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Advocacy History Cultures 52

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., What Can Education Leaders Do?

Heritage 101

Heritage Education K-12 American History 101

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Michael Arsham, executive director of ACS’s Office of Advocacy, which responds to complaints from those involved in the child welfare system, said the agency acknowledges that hotline calls from schools do not always contain serious safety concerns, and it is working more closely with the education department to minimize needless reporting.

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School Advocacy Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. He believes those connections have changed the culture. Some lament that decline and the apparent shift to relatively unproven alternatives. Well, you are real people.”.

Middle School 143

Middle School High School Elementary School History 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Creel also plans to ask her students to write blues poetry — which she considers a cultural gift from the Mississippi Delta to the rest of the world.

K-12 95

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 95

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. On May 11, 2015, Grimes was voted in unanimously as Russellville’s new school superintendent. The city’s Hispanic population was 22 percent and growing.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. “Preston Thorne was a unique piece of what made our school culture so great,” she said. His administration and the Blythewood community was generally supportive, and what followed were some of the most fulfilling years of his life.

Education 141

Education Elementary School High School Leadership 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars.

Library 143

Library Advocacy High School Psychology 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Shyra Adams vividly remembers the days after the death of Tony Robinson, an unarmed Black teenager killed in 2015 by police in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. Since the 2015-16 school year, teachers and staff at Oakland schools called the police more than 9,000 times, according to data included in the new resolution. million.

High School 143

High School Advocacy Research Middle School 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

He also pitched a new, five-year strategic direction that will emphasize tribal sovereignty and cultural education both promises the bureau made in its reform agenda more than a decade ago. The BIE closed Havasupai Elementary for nearly a month in 2015 because of insufficient staffing. Its just taken a while.

Education 108

Education Elementary School Government K-12 108

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Orientation video: Though it may not seem like it at first, making an effort to talk and listen to those who you disagree with can have a lasting impact on your campus culture. And he says what’s needed on campus today is a genuine culture of free speech. Jon: This year, colleges are trying to get ahead of this.

Civics 91

Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.

K-12 127

K-12 Education Education Policy Advocacy 127